So, now what? A more appropriate question cannot be asked in the aftermath of the Mets-Brewers deal that didn't happen. The untraded -- red-eyed Wilmer Flores and rehabbing Zack Wheeler -- are still property of the Mets. And Carlos Gomez is now on his way to Houston.
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During the days when baseball's royalty visited the leafy and lovely village of Cooperstown, N.Y., someone must have said "You look great" to 60-year-old Dennis Eckersley, because he looks as if his 40th birthday is a few years in the future. Eck has displaced Sandy Koufax as the Hall of Famer who defies time and confounds the folks who flood the city in midsummer each year. Not that Koufax, closing in on 80, looks his age.
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Dick Enberg always has been precise. He is exacting. His elocution, his eloquence, his choice of adverbs and adjectives. His timing. So there was Enberg on Saturday afternoon in, appropriately, the perfect setting -- Cooperstown, to be exact; at Doubleday Field, to be precise. Enberg was there to receive the 2015 Ford C. Frick Award for outstanding work as a baseball announcer and deliver salutes and words of appreciation for those had ushered him to this point in his life.
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It was the morning after the night before for some of us who had inhabited the Hawkeye Room downstairs at the Otesaga Resort Hotel on Thursday night into Friday. Nature couldn't have provided a more comfortable setting.
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Congratulations, folks. Nice job -- for the most part in the Greatest Living Player vote. Hank Aaron and Willie Mays were no brainers as half of the GLP quartet. And no one on this (Dodger) blue planet we inhabit was going to quarrel with Sandy Koufax, but It was the other selection that tickled me. Johnny Bench as one of the four greatest still roaming the earth. That's the one I didn't see coming, though the Reds' Hall of Fame catcher was my choice.
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The seventh day of the seventh month has arrived. For men and women of a certain age, the double digits of the date can prompt at least a thought and probably more about the man who made No. 7 so cool, significant and symbolic.
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It was the first night of the rest of the Mets' season, and Daniel Murphy was stationed at third base, also known as his best position. Ruben Tejada was to Murphy's immediate left, finally deployed at shortstop on what we've been told is supposed to be a permanent basis. As permanent as anything is with the Mets of the six-man, five-man, six-man rotation.
More» Collins discusses the offense's struggles

Montreal was and, presumably still is, a terrific city. I haven't visited since the the National League stepped out of international play and created the Nationals. I do miss the charm, restaurants and the exchange rate that made visits to Montreal enjoyable.
More»Former Expos Guerrero and Cabrera return to Montreal

The 1968 season produced the most brilliant, long-term pitching performance in Bob Gibson's Hall of Fame career: 11 starts, eight shutouts. When it ended, he had produced what remains the lowest single-season ERA for a qualifying pitcher since 1906.
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Decades before my baseball writing assignment was changed to writing columns, obituaries and only occasional news stories, I was a reporter/writer. I took my job seriously and probably emphasized writing more than reporting. Not an uncommon error in judgment for rookies.
More» Brewers, Mets, Manfred on Hamilton's passing

The surface is synthetic, and it may not be as green as the natural lawns Jon Niese is accustomed to. He may see the other team's grass as greener, though. It may be an ally to his defense as well; a needed ally for this reason: the Mets' defense has been wholly unreliable whenever Niese has pitched.
More» Niese strikes out six over seven innings

Noah Syndergarrd is a big man -- 6-foot-6, 240 pounds. But inexperience and the recent resume of the Jays readily could have shrunk his image. That he silenced that offense in what became a rousing 4-3, 11-inning Mets victory was David and Goliath stuff, though David probably was a head shorter than the Mets' starter.
More» Syndergaard fans 11, holds Blue Jays to one

Hours before Chris Heston began his no-hitter Tuesday night, a brief exchange on the bench in visiting dugout at Citi Field focused on the Mets' starters for the first two games of the series against the Giants.
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At some point before or during the Yankees' home game against the Blue Jays on July 4, the Yankee Stadium scoreboard is bound -- read: obligated -- to salute the anniversary of the no-hitter Dave Righetti threw against the Red Sox in 1983. An annual salute to Rags is warranted for that achievement, on the 53rd birthday of one George M. Steinbrenner, and others.
More»Dave Righetti on the Giants' road to World Series win

The unforgiving randomness of big league baseball is a powerful force that can equalize the '27 Yankees and the '62 Mets on a given day. Yet eyebrows were raised and double takes executed 30 years ago when the Phillies beat the Mets, 26-7.
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The names live on in Mets history, even now, three years and a week after Johan Santana eliminated that perplexing double negative -- no no-no -- from the resume of a franchise steeped in pitching lore. Leron Lee, Mike Compton, Chin Hui Tsao, Kit Pellow and Paul Hoover. Each was a professional party pooper. Each was responsible for the one hit in a Mets one-hitter; or, put another way, each denied the Mets a no-hitter.
More» Heston seals no-no at Citi Field with 11th K

I never covered Duke Snider. The Dodgers had gone West long before I had a BBWAA card and access to a big league clubhouse. But I had learned to make two subway transfers to get from the Bronx to Flatbush when tokens still cost 15 cents, all quite unbeknownst to my parents. So the Duke [...]
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MLB.com writer Marty Noble covered the Mets for the better part of 40 years and experienced or discovered hundreds of facts and anecdotes about the team. This being the 50th anniversary season of the Mets, Noble regularly will provide snippets from the clubâs history. This one is from 1990. These installments also mark the [...]
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MLB.com writer Marty Noble covered the Mets for the better part of 40 years and experienced or discovered hundreds of facts and anecdotes about the team. This being the 50th anniversary season of the Mets, Mets.com regularly will provide snippets from the clubâs history, beginning with this curious set of circumstances involving the Metsâ greatest [...]
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